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after some of the other forum members suggested libreoffice was crap and calligra was so superior, I figured I'd give it a shot, especially considering I'm a KDE user so I wouldn't have too many dependencies. All i have to say is for a 20 year old project, I'm not impressed. calligra shines in some aspects that libreoffice doesn't, but calligra is heavily outnumbered by libreoffice's benefits. What I would have to say though is whatever LO doesn't do, calligra might make up for it.

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after some of the other forum members suggested libreoffice was crap and calligra was so superior, I figured I'd give it a shot, especially considering I'm a KDE user so I wouldn't have too many dependencies. All i have to say is for a 20 year old project, I'm not impressed. calligra shines in some aspects that libreoffice doesn't, but calligra is heavily outnumbered by libreoffice's benefits. What I would have to say though is whatever LO doesn't do, calligra might make up for it.

Well from an architectural and development perspective Calligra is superior, however it is indeed lacking parity in terms of features at this point in time. Over the long term though it'll likely catch up and surpass Libreoffice, unless LibreOffice really takes the time to clean up and restructure their code. I'd even go so far to say that LibreOffice would need to switch over from the document model to a frame based model to really succeed long term over Calligra as that sets up a lot less code maintenance and development over time.

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I tried to use it several times, when I felt like "give it a chance". Words for writing a simple text document. It just crashed - when writing simple plain unformatted text (as you do with text editors).
The other time I used sheets. Filling in some cells + sum up values. I don't know what I did wrong, but from a certain point the document took about 1 minute to load or to save. Loading this document once in libreoffice took the same time, but after that it was fixed even in calligra (instant loading/saving).
There are some really bad crashers/bugs when addind a spreadsheet shape (all reported, not yet fixed in git master...).

This was with calligra-2.5.2+2.5.3, so no "ancient" versions... (wasn't 2.5 when they claimed calligra - at least some parts - finally was ready for productive use?)

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The target was to get started and fully support a version. As eBub 3 seems to introduce quite some complicated stuff they sticked to 2.x FOR THE BEGINNING! As I understood 3.x is definitely planned for the future.